Function

Summary

Reads from a LOB into a foreign buffer.

Package

sql

Signature

ora-lob-read-foreign-buffer lob-locator offset amount foreign-buffer buffer-length &key buffer-offset csid => amount-read , eof-or-error-p

Arguments

lob-locator

A LOB locator.

offset

A non-negative integer or nil .

amount

A non-negative integer.

foreign-buffer

A FLI pointer.

buffer-length

A non-negative integer.

buffer-offset

A non-negative integer.

csid

A.Character Set ID

Values

amount-read

A non-negative integer.

eof-or-error-p

A boolean or an error object.

Description

The function ora-lob-read-foreign-buffer reads from the LOB pointed to by lob-locator into the foreign buffer foreign-buffer .

This is just like ora-lob-read-buffer except that it reads from the LOB locator into a foreign buffer.

foreign-buffer is a FLI pointer to a buffer, which must be of size at least buffer-length .

Note: This is a direct call to OCILobRead, without callback.

Note: this function is available only when the "oracle" module is loaded. See the section Oracle LOB interface for more information.

See also

ora-lob-get-buffer
ora-lob-read-buffer